Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

One thing you often get in time travel stories is ones where the time was changed -- o cursed spite -- and you have to put it back again.  To set it right.

What you do not often get is reflections on the people who will be annihiliated by this.

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The Star Fox by Poul Anderson

This is a fix-up of three short stories -- in rapid succession, developing the plot straightforwardly.

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Trader To the Stars by Poul Anderson

Three short shories about Nicholas van Rijn, the title trader.

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The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 5: Door to Anywhere

The fifth in a four volume series. . . as the editor explains in the introduction, there may be six and seven in the future.  He wrote quite a bit of short stuff.

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Call Me Joe: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson volume 1

This one, unlike the latter ones, is all SF stories, with some poetry.( Read more... )

Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson

One of the classics of the fantasy genre.  It opens with the first-person narrator recounting how Holger Carlsen, a Dane, had come to America for education and worked for the same company as the narrator -- until World War II, when he went back to Denmark to work for the resistance.  Except that at one point, trying to cover an escape, pinned down by Nazi forces, he suffers a head wound and wakes up to find himself in an old growth forest.  With hawks.  And a bear.  He could believe the others, but there were no bears left in Denmark.
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After Doomsday by Poul Anderson

The first line in this book is someone announcing that Earth is dead.

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